Everglades National Park

All of these were taken in the Everglades National Park (one hour
south of Miami, Florida) with a Nikon 8008 camera, Nikon 300mm lens,
and tripod with ballhead.

All the originals were on Kodak Ektar 25 or Fuji Velvia film, then
scanned to PhotoCD, and
loaded into Adobe PhotoShop 3.0 using the Kodak CMS system. The
pictures were cropped in PhotoShop, improved with the "Auto Levels"
command in most cases, then saved to JPEG on the "medium" quality
setting.

Alligators can be subtle.
They gather here around the Anhinga Trail
In the dry winter because this is where
birds feed, including the
beautiful Anhinga,
which swims underwater and spears fish with its sharp bill
then rests in a tree
and spreads its wings to dry for 20 minutes.
The Great Blue Heron watches for fish
then spreads its wings

(sorry this and the next one are out of focus, but I didn't take too many heron pictures)